{5315} Primeנֶפֶשׁnephesh{neh'-fesh}From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).

Ecclesiastes 7:28

_ _ one man  that is, worthy of the name, “man,” “upright”; not more than one in a thousand of my courtiers (Job 33:23; Psalms 12:1). Jesus Christ alone of men fully realizes the perfect ideal of “man.” “Chiefest among ten thousand” (Song of Songs 5:10). No perfect “woman” has ever existed, not even the Virgin Mary. Solomon, in the word “thousand,” alludes to his three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines. Among these it was not likely that he should find the fidelity which one true wife pays to one husband. Connected with Ecclesiastes 7:26, not an unqualified condemnation of the sex, as Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 31:10, etc., prove.

Ecclesiastes 7:28

Yet seeketh  I returned to search again with more earnestness. I find not  That it was so, he found, but the reason of the thing he could not find out. One man  A wise and virtuous man. A woman  One worthy of that name; one who is not a dishonour to her sex. Among  In that thousand whom I have taken into intimate society with myself.

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yet:

Ecclesiastes 7:23-24 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it [was] far from me. ... That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?Isaiah 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

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Job 33:23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:Psalms 12:1 [[To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.]] Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

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Solomon, instead of seeking one rational, virtuous woman, had collected an immense multitude, of various countries and religions, for magnificence and indulgence; among whom, as might have been expected, he had not found one who was thoroughly faithful, upright, and pious. He here uses the language of a penitent, warning others of the errors into which he had been led; and not that of a wasphish satirist, lashing indiscriminately one half of the human species.1 Kings 11:1-3 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites; ... And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

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a commentary..keil.... makes a point that the hebrew actually might meanone of thousands and refer to jesus ... perhaps not one woman becausejesus had not yet made the holy spirit available and the holy spirit that teaches all things to believerswith its wisdom might be a womanas seems to be the case in proverbs 8th chapter- psalm110g (1/15/2013 8:47:00 AM) [qBible.com]